The desire to build a risk-free society has always been a sign of decadence. It has meant that the nation has given up, that it no longer believes in…

- Henry Fairlie

But in the morning Lust is always furtive. It dresses as mechanically as it undressed and heads straight for the door, to return to its own solitude.…

- Henry Fairlie

The foundation of humility is truth. The humble man sees himself as he is. If his depreciation of himself were untrue,... it wouldnot be praiseworthy…

- Henry Fairlie

Love wants to enjoy in other ways the human being whom it has enjoyed in bed; it looks forward to having breakfast.

- Henry Fairlie

The most important fact about our shopping malls, as distinct from the ordinary shopping centers where we go for our groceries, is that we do not nee…

- Henry Fairlie

There is a middlebrow snobbery in America that praises everything on public television and disdains everything on the commercial networks as a blight.

- Henry Fairlie

Gluttony and Lust are the only sins that abuse something that is essential to our survival.

- Henry Fairlie

We are at full stop. We think we have arrived.

- Henry Fairlie